Literary reference works

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W.

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction''s genres, themes, and concepts.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction''s genres, themes, and concepts.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996.

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

Hemingway''s letters, many previously unpublished, trace his literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris (1923–1925).

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

This volume examines the concerns – political, literary, and identity-based – of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

The book provides new scholarship on Asian North American literature and culture from an often-neglected historical period.

This volume examines the concerns – political, literary, and identity-based – of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

The book provides new scholarship on Asian North American literature and culture from an often-neglected historical period.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

This book examines how transition – from forced migration to revolutionary wars – shaped the development of early African American literature.

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

The first scholarly edition of this major nineteenth-century novel, exploring anarchist activity, cultural crisis, and their causes.

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

The canon of modern fantasy is in flux: this Element examines key questions raised by the fantasy canon.

Explores how bookshops like David Archer''s on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

This book examines how transition – from forced migration to revolutionary wars – shaped the development of early African American literature.

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

A systematic, chronological discussion of Samuel Beckett''s interest in the works and person of Marquis de Sade.

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Philip Roth''s body of work.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.